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#ThrowbackThursday to our annual Friend Fest – the team day everyone looks forward to all year!! Last week, we gathered in Birmingham for a day packed with friendly competition and a chance to show off just how well we know our company and the brilliant brand we launched last year. Spoiler: the quiz was trickier than it looked – but we rose to the challenge! After putting our brains to the test, we wrapped it all up with a sizzling BBQ and well-deserved drinks. Here’s to more moments like this – same time next year! #FMTS #FriendMTS #TBT

🔹Welcome to the Friend MTS team, David Nortier I am delighted to welcome David Nortier, who joins us from OpSec. David brings extensive experience working with some of the world's leading content owners, including sports rights holders, pay-TV operators, and OTT streaming platforms. David's knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to grow our insights and intelligence on what sits behind the complex and dark world of #contenttheft. Welcome aboard, David. I look forward to working closely with you.

Thank you CSI Magazine judges for shortlisting our smarter anti-piracy monitoring for best anti-piracy protection in this year’s #CSIAwards. New, innovative AI and adaptive intelligence capabilities identify threats 70% faster across all major piracy vectors, including open web, subscription IPTV services, file sharing and social media. Our congratulations to all finalists. See you at the ceremony at #IBC2025! #AntiPiracy #ContentProtection #StreamingSecurity   https://lnkd.in/efuq6xWr

Piracy continues to evolve, targeting high-value content and placing pressure on broadcasters, service providers and rights holders to act quickly and decisively. Illegal streaming services now mirror legitimate platforms, utilising off-the-shelf tech to capture and redistribute content at scale. In the UK alone, nearly 4.5 million people accessed live sports illegally in the last 6 months. Effective enforcement is important, but it can only work as part of a broader strategy. At Friend MTS, we help providers turn protection into progress with long-term solutions that reduce risk, protect revenue, and reconnect with diverted audiences. Our goal is simple: ✔ Make piracy unviable ✔ Make protection seamless ✔ Help providers convert illegal viewers into legitimate subscribers With global and regional monitoring hubs, we rapidly detect illicit streams. Forensic watermarking helps trace leaks to their source. Dynamic server blocking removes illegal access points in real time. These solutions are helping rights owners regain control of their content and reduce the incentives that keep piracy alive. 📬  Subscribe for updates on the strategies leading broadcasters are using to stay ahead. https://lnkd.in/ej9YaBBg #FriendMTS #WeStopPiracy

As Italy’s Piracy Shield comes under the EU Commission’s spotlight, it’s clear that the fight against piracy isn’t won by technology alone. It takes cooperation and teamwork across the industry. With a decade of experience deploying blocking successfully and safely for big-name broadcasters, content producers and sports rights owners, we know it is a game-changing and highly impactful way to cut off access to illegal streams. But getting the blocking balance right requires collaboration across the entire industry, including clear governance and accountability with full support from broadcasters, platforms, rights holders and regulators. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eVuVzZBQ #AntiPiracy #ContentProtection #PiracyShield #Collaboration #StreamingSecurity #BroadcastRights Find out more about our blocking solutions: https://lnkd.in/eCfnaQRD

“Authenticating a piece of content as being genuine and from the original publisher would be something that we’d all like to see.” Our Robin Boldon discusses content provenance and authenticity in part 3 of decodeTV’s focus on content security. Read the article in full here: https://lnkd.in/esehDcJB Find out how our watermarking and monitoring services are helping fight piracy ⬇️  #DigitalProtection

Congratulations to Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) on its latest successful operation targeting a major illegal streaming service. We recently had the opportunity to host several PIPCU team members for a knowledge-sharing workshop about stopping piracy and learned so much from their experience and expertise.  Partnerships like this are essential in the fight against content theft. Learn more about the operation: https://lnkd.in/eBdhQJXC #AntiPiracy #PIPCU #FriendMTS #ContentProtection #Collaboration

You invest in sports rights for exclusivity, audience impact, and returns. Piracy undermines that at every level. Our detection and takedown systems help protect game-day revenue and long-term value. 👉 Stay ahead of emerging threats. Sign up for expert insights and industry updates 🛡️ https://lnkd.in/ej9YaBBg #FriendMTS #WeStopPiracy

Gearing up for IBC 2025: The Stamping Your Content (C2PA Provenance) initiative is one of the Accelerator Programme projects designed to address pressing industry challenges which will be showcased at IBC in September. Our own futurologist, William del Strother, talks to IBC365 about how open-source C2PA tools are vital to establishing content authenticity and the role robust fingerprinting, tamper detection and contextual analysis will play in distinguishing between the innocent re-editing and malicious tampering of content. Find out more about trusting the content we’re watching in this blog: https://lnkd.in/eNXgx2M6 #IBC2025 #tech #broadcasting #media #IBCShow

Find out more about the carrot and stick approach to fighting piracy in decodeTV’s article on service blocking, the second in its three-part series on content security. Our Robin Boldon explores how blocking is highly disruptive and measurable but needs careful handling to avoid overblocking. Read the article in full here: https://lnkd.in/eMZsCMRA Find out how our blocking solutions fight piracy ⬇️ #AntiPiracy #contentsecurity #blockingsolutions